satanistgoblin
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During the campaign he said US shouldn't have left Bagram, Bagram is in Afghanistan, by transitive property that means remaining in Afghanistan.
satanistgoblin
10d ago
Trump said that he wants to staple green cards to diplomas, so #2 isn't even being promised.
satanistgoblin
10d ago
Likudniks would still want to ethnically clense Gaza.
Hamas calls for end to war
They always called for the to the war. They offered to return hostages in exchange for IDF staying out of Gaza.
EU will buy U.S. gas not Russian gas
EU was sanctioning Russia since the Ukraine war, so probably nothing to do with Trump.
China wants to work peacefully with us
China has been saying that since the Nixon visit?
satanistgoblin
11d ago
War with Iran incoming?
Tulsi and RFK, like Trump, are completely behind Israel. Ukraine is a sideshow in comparison in establishment interest.
Rumors of Thomas Massie being tapped for agricultural secretary. He has the most controversial foreign policy view of any Republican politician.
Coincidentally, agricultural secretory has very little to do with foreign policy.
satanistgoblin
14d ago
I eventually discovered she held her position because she genuinely didn't believe that men had any advantage over women besides height and weight-- and that existing sex segregation was actually the result of discrimination against women.
Well, that's just plain nuts.
Parents have a justifiable authority to restrict the rights of their children, but the government doesn't have that right on their behalf.
Why not? It bans tattoos for kids and FGM. Preventing child abuse is one legitimate government functions under minarchism, so if government is to exist at all it should do that.
Trump was the one who started shipping arms to Ukraine (Obama thought it too escalatory) and also help Johnson sell Ukraine aid package by calling it a "loan". "They want to give them $60 billion more. Do it this way. Loan them the money. If they can make it, they pay us back. If they can’t make it, they don’t have to pay us back" [this seems less like 3d chess than an open scam to me].
My prediction is that status quo continues.
satanistgoblin
15d ago
That's a bunch of postmodern second-hand lesswrong rhetoric meant to let the camel's nose into the tent. Now the camel is halfway in and kids are being sterilised and/or taken away from parents who "don't affirm their gender". Let's get the camel back out.
There are both true believers and cynical actors pushing any particular policy, like bootleggers and baptists both being pro prohibition as a classical example.
satanistgoblin
16d ago
No.
satanistgoblin
16d ago
Is Pandora's box code for psychodelics or something?
I don't believe that men can be women either. I get where it comes from - the left believes in reality being socially constructed and in wise experts -, the more they freak out the normies the wiser. Trans stuff is amplified for depopulation purposes, to make money in the medical industrial complex, to give more power for government to intrude in the family, etc. Demons inventing nukes, now that's an interesting new delusion.
By no means am I suggesting that libs by-and-large aren't nuts too.
Tucker Carlson appearing on Joe Rogan experience speculated that UAPs are real, but are not alien visitors from other planets but supernatural in origin and always has been here. More recently he claimed to have been mauled by a demon in his sleep, which resulted in physical marks (more probable culprit - one of four dogs in the room?). His suspected demonic activity today - the invention of nuclear weapons:
I have never met a person who can isolate the moment when nuclear technology became known to man. So, where did it come from exactly? ... it's very clear to me these are demonic.
Why are apparently kooky beliefs entertained by top influencers on the right? Cadence Owens also came out as dinosaur truther and flat-earth curious.
Is Tucker trying to become the next Alex Jones? Is this part of an op to associate historical revisionism and opposition to the ruling regime with insanity?
My model: Johnson isn't a good faith actor and he complained about CIA for self agrandisment purposes only. He seems to be an absolute weasel.
satanistgoblin
1mo ago
*Peter Daszak.
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
Russia isn't asking for a handout and stopping the aid to Ukraine would be enough to stop the war.
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
She has private security.
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
I saw a thread om twitter explaining that low fertility in South Korea is due to parental investment competion:
It's amazing how far people go not to point out every Korean born requires >9k hours of costly test prep for a chance at "good" college otherwise you sweep floors or fold boxes at the Gwangyang Steel Works until you die.
I have to wonder if there's a taboo.
In high fertility countries, slightly older kids raise their siblings.
That's the answer. It's not a hard mystery.
17 y/o Koreans can't help raise their 15 y/o siblings, because Korean teens are preparing for college exams, which only expensive adults can help with.
That's it.
Do people even bother asking Koreans?
Surely any married Korean couple, if you ask them why they don't have four kids, will surely bring up the nightmarish prospect of ensuring that all of them are "properly placed"?
"Have the older kids tutor the younger ones" yeah, right!
Agent provocateur?
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
Spreading the ownership across more people in practice means Vanguard and Blackrock managing more of the economy.
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
There is a tax on selling stuff, tax on unrealised gains would be a tax on just owning stuff. It is messed up that inflation isn't factored out of realised gains too, sure.
satanistgoblin
2mo ago
Asset value in dollars will go up just due to inflation alone. Unless inflation is factored out, unrealised gains is a wealth tax and slow motion nationalisation.
"The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation" - Lenin.
Trump promised not to cut entitlements and isn't going to cut defense, that's the vast majority of the budget not being cut right there. The rest is tinkering around the edges.
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